Mobilisation

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 402.

But the main thing is mobilisation of the nation before a common danger. Events in other countries have shown that terrorists received the most effective rebuff where they encounter not only the power of the state but an organised, united civil society. Fellow countrymen, the aim of those who sent the bandits to carry out this horrific crime was to divide our people, to frighten the Russian citizens, to unleash a fratricidal bloodbath in the North Caucasus. However, in this respect I have the following to say. First, in the near future a range of measures to strengthen the unity of the country will be prepared. Second, I think it is essential to create a new system for coordinating the forces and resources controlling the situation in the North Caucasus. Third, it is essential to set up an effective, crisis management system, including a fundamentally new approach to the actions of the law-enforcement agencies. I stress that all these measures shall be carried out in full compliance with the country's constitution... It is impossible to become reconciled to the anguish of the loss. But the ordeals have brought us even closer together and made us re-evaluate many things. Today we must be together. This is the only way for us to defeat the enemy.